I'm a King Bee

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Well, I'm a king bee
Buzzin' 'round your hive.
Well I can make honey, baby.
You gotta let me come inside.
Well, I'm a king bee
(King bee.)
Buzzin' around your hive.
(Hive.)
Well I'm a king bee
(King bee.)
Buzzin' 'round your hive.
(Hive.)
I'm gonna make honey, baby.
Let me come inside.
(Yeah.)
I am able
(Able.)
To buzz all night long.
(All night long.)
Yeah, I am able
(Able.)
To buzz all night long.
(Long, all night long.)
You hear me buzzin' baby.
Some stingin' goin' on.
(Ahhh...)
Well I'm a king bee.
(King bee.)
Want you to be my queen.
(Be my queen.)
I'm a king bee, girl.
(King bee.)
Want you to be my queen.
(Be my queen.)
Together we can make honey
The world have never seen.
(Seen...)
I got a stinger
Long as my right arm.
(My right arm.)
I got a stinger, baby
(Got a stinger.)
Long as my right arm.
(Long as my right arm.)
It's my love machine, baby.
It won't do you no harm.
(Yeah...)
Well I'm a king bee.
(Well I'm a king bee.)
Want you to be my queen.
(Want you to be my queen.)
Well I'm a king bee,
(Well I'm a king bee, king bee.)
Want you to be my queen.
(Be my queen.)
Together we can make honey
The world have never seen.


This lyric comes from the Matrix version and features Ray on vocals with Jim on harmony shown in brackets.

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

Another song that spanned the Morrison period withThe Doors with a Manzarek/Morrison vocal.
A song pretty much covered by everybody at the time, even Pink Floyd did a version of it.

The Doors - I'm a King Bee from the Matrix in 1967
A nice vocal from Screaming Ray backed up by Morrison on second vocal and a neat blues guitar from Robby.
Densmore gives his usual solid backing and the band seem tight even from this early stage just before they hit the top of the charts with LMF. Morrison probably got his love of the harmonica from blues musicians and his rather bad attempts to emulate them featured in some Doors concerts.

I'm a King Bee was written by blues musician James Moore alias 'Slim Harpo' and released as his debut single in 1957.


Slim Harpo - I'm a King Bee

Pink Floyd-I'm A King Bee 1966